With the General Availability of the standalone MySQL Utilities it now makes sense to use these to simplify (and optionally automate) your MySQL Replication and High Availability solutions. In light of that, 4 of our MySQL white papers have been updated to reflect the new opportunities:

MySQL Guide to High Availability Solutions. Data is the currency of today’s web, mobile, social, enterprise and cloud applications. Ensuring data is always available is a top priority for any organization – minutes of downtime will result in significant loss of …

The sessions for this year’s MySQL Connect conference have now been scheduled – as you can see below, my 2 MySQL Cluster sessions will be on Saturday 21st September at 11:30 and 14:30 (Pacific).

The MySQL Connect conference is a great opportunity to listen to and chat with people from the MySQL community – including the engineers who work on or around MySQL as well people who are using it in production. The conference takes place from 21-23 September in San Francisco (runs up to Oracle OpenWorld). There are 84 sessions scheduled and the content catalog has now been published.

I’ll be …

Modern NoSQL solutions make good, old MySQL Replication appear weak on High Availability (HA). Basically, MySQL users have three choices for MySQL Replication HA: give up on HA, believe that doubling single points of failures means HA, or go for a proper but complex solution. Albeit, as NoSQL world and competition proves, solid HA can be dead simple: embed a Group Communication System (GCS) into MySQL! No single point of failure and near zero client deployment is doable. In parts, the proposal surpassed Pacemaker/Corosync. Read on: story, slides, experimental code.

PoC: Using a Group …

With the release of MySQL Utilities 1.3.4, the standalone (not bundled with the MySQL WorkBench GUI) package is now Generally Available and fully supported. This post will focus on a very important change (the ability to run as a daemon rather than in a terminal) to the mysqlfailover utility which allows you to build a light-weight HA database solution using MySQL Replication.

For a general overview of MySQL Utilities, take a look at this recent webinar or for a deeper dive into using them to setup replication and adding auto-failover of the master function to slaves watch this video and worked example. …

Last week we ran a live webinar presenting the new MySQL Web Reference Architectures, a set of documented and repeatable best practices for building highly available, scaleable and secure database infrastructure to power new generations of web and mobile services.

The webinar replay is now available on-demand so you can listen in from the comfort of your own desk…or commute.

As a taster - we discuss sizing and design patterns - you can see a sample below:

We received some great questions during the Q&A session which I felt would be useful to you, so I've included them …

MySQL 5.6 includes a host of enhancements to replication, enabling DevOps teams to reliably scale-out their MySQL infrastructure across commodity hardware, on-premise or in the cloud.

One of the most significant enhancements is the introduction of Global Transaction Identifiers (GTIDs) where the primary development motivation was:

- enabling seamless failover or switchover from a replication master to slave

- promoting that slave to the new master

- without manual intervention and with minimal service disruption.

You can download the new MySQL Replication High Availability Guide to learn more. …

As alway with new technology there is always different approaches regarding the adoption. You can try to use the bleeding edge features or start with a very standard configuration. My personal advise to new users is to start with the most basic configuration.

This allow you to get familiar with the fundamentals : - how [...]

Update – the recording of this webinar is now available here.

This Wednesday (27th March) Mat Keep and I will be presenting a free, live webinar on MySQL 5.6 Replication. You need to register here ahead of the webinar – worth doing even if you can’t attend as you’ll then be sent a link to the replay when it’s available. We’ll also have some of the key MySQL replication developers on-line to answer your questions and so it’s also a great chance to get some free consultancy

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Join this session to learn how the new …

MySQL 5.6 reached GA (General Availability) today and is packed with a wealth of new features and capabilities.  Exciting stuff!
MySQL 5.6 also introduces the largest set of enhancements to replication ever delivered in a single release, including: - 5x higher performance to improve consistency across a cluster and reduce the risks of data loss in the event of a master failing - Self-healing clusters with automatic failover and recovery from outages or planned maintenance - Assured data integrity with checksums implemented across the replication workflow - DevOps automation
Of course, getting started with all of these enhancements can be a challenge - whether you are new to MySQL replication or an experienced user. So two new Guides are available to help take advantage of everything replication offers in MySQL 5.6.
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Global Transaction Identifiers (GTIDs) are one of the key replication enhancements in MySQL 5.6. GTIDs make it simple to track and compare replication across a master - slave topology. This enables:

- Much simpler recovery from failures of the master,

- Introduces great flexibility in the provisioning and on-going management of multi-tier or ring (circular) replication topologies.

A new on-demand MySQL 5.6 GTID webinar delivered by the replication engineering team is now available, providing deep insight into the design and implementation of GTIDs, and how they enable users to simplify MySQL scaling and HA. The webinar covers:

- Concepts: What is a GTID? How does the …